It was good to receive a QSL from 6W2SC today. Peter/HA3AUI was the op and this is an all-time new one for me. Mxed tally is at 190 and RTTY at 125 now.
Monthly Archives: June 2010
The DLDC Contest
I spent a few hours contesting in each of the three stints of the contest. Conditions were poor through Saturday but managed to log a few stations on 10m. It is nice to note that this is the successor of the ANARTS contest. I was part of the world record setting multi-op team from VU2JX (JS/VU2JX, Nat/VU2NTA and I) on ANARTS in 1988!
The BARTG Sprint 75 took place on Saturday between 2000 UTC and 2359 UTC. It was a pity I could not participate as the bands were dead during that period out here (1.30 AM to 5.30 AM local time). I hope the BARTG Sprint 75 shifts to a more convenient time next year.
Skimmer back online…
My SoftRock SDR on 20m is back online hooked up to CW Skimmer on the Reverse Beacon Network. It was fun to see the number of “spots” generated on the WPX CW contest last weekend. I had some trouble with practically no image rejection on the SDR, but then figured that the balance on the input line was awry. Brought it back to the middle and automatic IQ balance began to work again.
I use QuickMix to switch between sound card profiles and usually use a “full-left” balance for the input while operating on AFSK. It seems this setting was not getting changed when I moved between the SDR and AFSK settings.
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